Nozawa Now: Thursday 28th December 2017
- Dec 28, 2017
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 18cm
Snowfall at base this season 223cm
Posted on Thursday 28th December 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning everyone.
More snow to report to you this morning and it continues to fall.
The resort are reporting up to 50cm on the upper slopes overnight with 10cm on the ground in lower areas. There was a lot of wind around yesterday and that I think is affecting my measured number, 18cm. I am pretty sure there has been more than that, but that's what is being measured this morning.
Whatever, lots of fresh new snow over the last few days and conditions should be really great this morning.
Limited visibility especially on upper areas of the mountain.
We can perhaps expect less snow today and tomorrow, but the snow clouds are due to remain over the region so I will probably be bringing you fresh numbers.
Over the weekend there might be some calmer and even clearer skies with more good snow potential on the forecast for early in the week. That would be a very good start to January.
Enjoy!
Fresh snowfall (as reported by the resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 50cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 25cm
- Hikage (660m): 10cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 10cm
- Karasawa (563m): 10cm
Official snow depth numbers:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 265cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 205cm
- Hikage (660m): 145cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 140cm
- Karasawa (563m): 130cm
All lifts operating except the following:
- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Kandahar pair
All courses now at least part open except the following:
- Challenge 39 wall
- Mukobayashi
- Grand Prix
- Hachiman
- Kamoshika
- Kandahar
Nozawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Thursday 28th December 2017 Total snowfall at base 223cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 15 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 53cm (27th December) November 2017 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2017 snowfall 202cm reported on 13 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Nozawa Onsen. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.